Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

More than profession required

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This indicates the distance between the theological and

ritualistic religion of the ages and the truth preached by

Jesus. More than profession is requisite for

Christian demonstration. Few understand or

adhere to Jesus' divine precepts for living and

healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disci-

ple to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye,

– that is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs

and practices, to leave all for Christ.

No ecclesiastical monopoly

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All revelation (such is the popular thought!) must come

from the schools and along the line of scholarly and eccle-

siastical descent, as kings are crowned from a

royal dynasty. In healing the sick and sinning,

Jesus elaborated the fact that the healing effect

followed the understanding of the divine Principle and

of the Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal Jesus.

For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesiastical

monopoly. Its only crowned head is immortal sover-

eignty. Its only priest is the spiritualized man. The

Bible declares that all believers are made "kings and

priests unto God." The outsiders did not then, and

do not now, understand this ruling of the Christ; there-

fore they cannot demonstrate God's healing power.

Neither can this manifestation of Christ be com-

prehended, until its divine Principle is scientifically

understood.

A change demanded

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The adoption of scientific religion and of divine heal-

ing will ameliorate sin, sickness, and death. Let our

pulpits do justice to Christian Science. Let

it have fair representation by the press. Give

to it the place in our institutions of learning now occu-

pied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will